Fox beaters boast of kill in web film posted on Facebook

A gang which beat a fox to death with a cricket bat before posting a video of the kill on Facebook has claimed to be doing ‘a public service’.

Gangs with cricket bats are a bigger danger than foxes, say the League Against Cruel Sports

Urban Foxhunters, based in east London, describes itself as ‘a collective who hate foxes’. Footage was posted on Facebook but it has now been taken down.‘I have kids and I don’t want them being bitten by vermin,’ said a member. A spokesman for the League Against Cruel Sports said: ‘People are at far greater risk from people with cricket bats than they are from urban foxes.’

Baby twins Isabella and Lola Koupparis were attacked by a fox at they slept in their east London home in June.